Necessary equp't for survival scenario

[Mr. Lothario]

     OK, planning for the apocalypse here. Say that it became obvious that something big was about to happen, and much of civilization was going to be destroyed. Someone is putting together a group of people in a safe location (say, an isolated valley) who are intended to be a self-contained, self-supporting, sustainable population. What skills would need to be included among the group? Blacksmith, doctor, someone who knows herbs and medicines, farmers, livestock handlers, an engineer to build bridges and dams and the like... what else? Also, what else would they need, aside from the tools and supplies for the craftsmen and a library?

[Ace]

Also, what else would they need, aside from the tools and supplies for the craftsmen and a library?

Beer. Duh.

[(SiX)Ben]

Trees/bushes/crops/food... to grow and flourish into other food... Some animals for meat... possibley 2 animals from each species for Noah and the Arc type thing...

Ben

[Ace]

Trees/bushes/crops/food... to grow and flourish into other food

Yeah, important foods like barley and hops.

[*DAMN Hazard]

Someone to look after the books so that the future survivors could be educated and someone to brainwash them into being perfect muahahah.. headache..

[+-KoS-+ Gorf]

wtf?  how about a GORF!?  that is by far on the top of the list of necessary items!  The average Gorf can snipe enemy targets (such as a could of nuclear waste) no matter what range or conditions, and no matter if they are a noob like jo or an even bigger noob like jeb.   The Gorf provides food, and can cook very well.  He can also reproduce with your wives but we won't go there.

[Ace]

    OK, planning for the apocalypse here. Say that it became obvious that something big was about to happen, and much of civilization was going to be destroyed. Someone is putting together a group of people in a safe location (say, an isolated valley) who are intended to be a self-contained, self-supporting, sustainable population. What skills would need to be included among the group? Blacksmith, doctor, someone who knows herbs and medicines, farmers, livestock handlers, an engineer to build bridges and dams and the like... what else? Also, what else would they need, aside from the tools and supplies for the craftsmen and a library?

Well I started getting this thing off topic so I'll bring it back on. A botanist would be huge; you hinted at this by saying someone who knows about herbs. The library would be the most important think. Give a good set of scientific and engineering books and an good engineer would be able to learn the new stuff outside of his field.

[bronto]

If apocolypse was coming or if Iraq decided to blow us up, i wouldn't give a shit. I'd just go sex up some peeps and die, knowing that alot of other people died with me so im not lonely on the way down to hell.

[Geek USA]

food, water, and a guitar

[ejo-toolazytologin]

A politician!! There's gotta be some sort of control and law. I'm thinking a monarchy; screw democracy .

[PsYcO aSsAsSiN]

You would need a surgeon, not a doctor...a doctor really can't do shit without medicine (I assume it would be destroyed along with most of the rest of humanity)

[Flame]

But then a surgeon's tools would also be destroyed?
You need chicks, so we can reproduce and a monarchy would be cool, if I was the leader and you were all my slaves.
Also we wouldn't need blacksmiths, because we would all have to be united, and if someone rebels, just snipe em with the gorf?

[|MP|Buccaneer]

A civil engineer, some tool makers (black smiths), and a bunch of farmers (and their daughters).

civil engineers are the ones that will be best suited to the building of things needed.  Along with some blacksmiths, you'd need some skilled tradesmen, if you planned on keeping electricity going and such.  If not, screw the surgeon, get an old country doctor, used to dealing with everything.  Without the modern tools, the surgeon would be out of his element, country doc wouldn't.

But the basics are food, water and shelter.  Food - farmers, water - civil engineer to keep you from doing stupid things to the water supply, like digging your outhouse upstream, shelter - civil engineer and skilled tradesmen, one to design and oversee, others that know what they are doing building.

And if this was really going to happen, I'd grab a bunch of Amish guys.  They've been living like this forever.  Ok, Amish girls.  

[Jeb]

in order to restart the human population, i'll just need destructo's sister, and some cheap wine coolers
 

[(SiX)Ben]

Really? Wow... You're a stronger man then I... It'd take me getting really drunk before I'd want to hit dest's sister with anything of less length then a baseball bat... (j/k dest... calm down... dest.... calm down... it was a joke... OMFG DEST! CALM DOWN MAN!)

Ben

[*DAMN Silent Killer]

First of all an monarch will suck

ever heard of english monarchs??? o wait total goatfuck

tards we would need beer, wemon , and pot thow

[MacMan]

a few plants marijhuana seedlings, some beer, grapes, joust, grain, an few dynamos, and simple materials, with tools, to build some necessary starting things. Axes, just bring a few, harder to make em later. boooooooks, scientists, nature guids (suvival-guys), engineers, farmers and medical personnel. mb a few guns, a copy of some constitution (american, dutch, french, doest matter, just for some principles) and as much regular people (from all layers of society) as possible.

mb think of more later.

[jn.loudnotes]

I think that if the only elements of human society to survive were drugs and sex, there wouldn't be much point in surviving.  Seems like the human race is a little pointless if that's all that goes with it.

Anyway, people could get their fill of all that in the final days before the apocolypse.

[Cossack]

We would need explorer/topographers too. What happens if we run outta recources. You are gonna need some guy like me that can walk around for a hell of a long time looking for new shit to waste. You wouldalso probablly need an electrician for radios and what not so if you do venture outside  your valley you can keep in contact.

[Jeb]

A monarch isn't a bad situation for a really small community. It wouldn't take a whole congress and house of reps to run a small city. A single leader can react faster to problems, and also since the size of the community would be pretty small it would work well.
Whats even stranger about england than their previous monarchs is the fact that the crown does practicaly nothing, and yet the "royal family" is held in such high regard, with their castles, and trophy wives, talk about a free ride.